The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-26
FOREIGN.

In County Kerry, Ireland, tenant
named Kcane was shot and severely wounded
for having paid his rent
A frightful accident is reported by
cable from London. The Hebrew Dramatic
Club gave an entertainment at a theater in
Princess street, Spitalfelds, which was at
tended by about 800 persons, mostly Jews
Some one in the gallery, doubtless for a joke,
shouted, "Fire!" The gas was Immediately
turned of at the meter, and terrible panic
ensu7d The people rushed in a solil mass
for the doors, and numbers were trolden un-
der foot When the panic had subsidel it
was founl that twelve women and five youths
had been trampled 10 death in the rush to es-
cape, and many others injured
Emperor William, in receiving the
President of the Prussian Landtag, expressed
his chagrin at the defeat of the army bill, and
voiced the hope that the measure would be
pas ed in the near future.
The chief clerk of the Paris post
office fed with $40, 600 in money-orders.
Henry NJ. Stanley says the expedition
for the relief of Emin Bey will cost $4,000,
and that it will leave Zanzibar composed of
LOO men,
A cable dispatch says that the Lib
eral and IRISH Nationalist Cubs of London
are arranging to hold great public meeting
to express indignation at the inhumanity
shown in the recent ev.ctions on the VIM
estates at G!enbeigh, County Kerry, Ireland
A Dublin dispatch gives the following par
ticullrs of these evictions:
Edward O'Graday, tenant OH the Gabbett
estates near Cahercoulish, Limerick, learned
that force of eighteen bailiffs coming TO
evict him. With the assistance of neighbors he
cut down trees and shrubbery, with which he
barrcaded the house. Then, with about TWEEN
~ friends ne proceeded TO the upper floor, and
cut away the staircase behind him When the
eyicting party arrived they stormed the
house with sledge- hammers and bay
onets. Ladders were placed against the
walls, up which policemen and bailffs swarmed.
but the defenders threw boiling water on their
assailants and hurled the ladders to the ground
After a three hours contest the balliffs finally
succeeded in cutting hole in the upper floor.
through which some Of the policemen crawled,
while others covered tho occupants of the house
with rifles. The eviction was then effected,
and several persons were arrested. During the
excitement the police repeatedly charged and
dubbed n crowd OF sympathzers that had gait
cred Several policemen and citizens were
injured In County Kerry one hundred
and fifty policemen and bailiffs, on their way
to evict the tenants at Coomashorn, a wild
and almost inaccessible glen, found their
way stopped by peasants. who had removed the
usual means of crossing the stream near the
glen While they were making n long detour,
the peasant women carried the reporters and
others who were friendly to the tenants across
the stream on their backs. The police finally
arrived, evicted the tenants, and leveled the
houses with crowbars. The burning of vacated
dwellings has been abandoned, owing 10 Gov
eminent pressure on landlords. sheriff and
n force OF police from Gwesdore, while on their
way TO ovict tenants at Bloody Fare
land, County Donegal, Tuesday, found the
road blocked with immense granite
powders, and were obliged to proceed on foot.
The blowing of horns and ringing of bells
brought together large crowds Of peasants, who
threatened the police with violence. The police
made n strategic move around the base Of the
mountain by the sea, but scouts on the noun
tain top gave the alarm, and the peasn nts,
cheering. rushed down the mountain side and
blocked the passage. A constable threatened
the crowd with his baton. This was the signal
for n shower Of stones from the excited peasants.
A desperat fight ensued. I'm which five police
men were badly wounded
The marriage of Prince Roland Boz
naparte and Princess Letitia will take place in
April at Turin.
The upper house of the Prussian
Diet Las unanimously adopted an address to
Emperor William expressing the willingness
of the Prussian people 10 vote the means nee
essary for defending the German Empire.